If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau I may be no better, but at least I am different. Jean-Jacques Rousseau differentmay You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau environmentalphilosophicalland The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophicalanimalsweet Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wish-to-diepainjesus I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do. Jean-Jacques Rousseau doewantmen Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau freedommotivationalinspirational Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. Jean-Jacques Rousseau easysay-anythingpeople In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau punishmentdecaycriminals Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace? Jean-Jacques Rousseau laughterheartsports We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau educationbirthdaymen No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow-mannaturalmen Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords. Jean-Jacques Rousseau naturecharactermen Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you. Jean-Jacques Rousseau fireanimalmen If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority? Jean-Jacques Rousseau majoritygroupspeople Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling. Jean-Jacques Rousseau naturemenchildren Rather suffer an injustice than commit one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau injusticelibertariansuffering My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau delightinspirational Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all. Jean-Jacques Rousseau vanitymadmen Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind. Jean-Jacques Rousseau journeymovingthinking Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau escapingslaverydesire
